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by il 15y ago
Every entrepreneur I've talked to, including many outside Silicon Valley that are not part of any accelerator has said that it's easier to raise money than ever before. If you have an idea and team that's fundamentally fundable, you'll get
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by il 15y ago
What makes you think their approach is spray and pray?
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Silicon Valley startup gala spurs feeding frenzy (YC Demo Day)(reuters.com)
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Y Combinator's Demo Day Gets Supersized(allthingsd.com)
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by il 15y ago
Looked great until the marketing slide. Are you saying the size of your market is 23.7 billion users?
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by il 15y ago
As a counterpoint, the "miserable failure" ranking for Bush was removed by Google too.
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The formula that makes a video go viral(virool.com)
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Make advertising more relevant and less annoying- MixRank is hiring engineers(mixrank.theresumator.com)
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by il 15y ago
Please. Hundreds of startups use a 37signals-inspired pricing page with 3 plans and the middle "most popular option". Now you're just going on a witch hunt.
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by il 15y ago
Here's the Offer HN post that started everything: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163
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MixRank (YC S11) is hiring engineers
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MixRank (YC S11) Raises $1.5M from Mark Cuban, 500 Startups(techcrunch.com)
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Some fear a glut in incubators(online.wsj.com)
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Can startup schools teach the next big thing?(pbs.org)
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by il 15y ago
Thanks! I was worried it was too dense, but I wanted to make sure to put in enough advanced content that everyone would get at least some value out of it.
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Paid traffic for lean startups: you're not failing enough.(blog.mixrank.com)
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by il 15y ago
Congrats guys. Love the product. Using a Vidyard video on our landing pages has significantly increased conversions.
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Interested in machine learning? Come work at MixRank (YC S11)
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MixRank (YC S11) is hiring engineers to solve hard problems at massive scale
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by il 15y ago
It seemed as if you were typecast as the villain/arrogant/guy-you-love-to-hate reality show archetype. Did you expect this during filming? Did the producers try to steer you into behaving in a certain way?
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by il 15y ago
Where are you looking for work? I haven't come across a single startup using Java here, and I know many using Ruby or Python. In my experience, technology choice is never just that- it says a lot about the culture and internal practices of
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by il 15y ago
Can you put an email address in your HN profile or in a comment here? I'm sure there are lots of great startups that can treat you much better and are interested in talking to you.
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MixRank (YC S11) is hiring engineers to solve hard problems at massive scale
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by il 15y ago
Fortunately most women aren't like this. It's still disappointing that a popular show can be so viciously anti-intellectual. In my experience, women are interested in hearing about the guy's passions, not less so if that passion is building
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by il 15y ago
Well, you've heard of us now, right?
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Caltrain is usually pretty fast and reliable during rush hour. But I would definitely pay for a consistent shuttle from my neighborhood(Mission) to the SF Caltrain and back.
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You want to segment your audience really finely and then build out a target list based on that. Who is your CRM for? Technology startups? Computer repairmen? Telemarketers? And then work backwards from there to keywords/sites that you thin
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by il 15y ago
I'll try to write a blog post about this soon. Basically, you want to be sure to track every ad separately all the way down the funnel. So you want to set up goals in Google Analytics as normal, but then create a custom report segmented by
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by il 15y ago
Apologies for the confusion. I believe this is a free, full 40 minute course that covers a lot of the content about researching and optimizing media buys. It's not like a 2 minute preview/trailer or anything like that. The second part of th
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by il 15y ago
I didn't have enough time to cover everything, so I would be happy to answer questions or expand on anything in the comments here. The main theme is that buying display ads isn't just for brands any more- any small startup can do it profita

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